Who Am I?
Photography; 47”W x 68”H
Along San Francisco’s Market Street, faces meet and dissolve into one another—merging, reemerging, and reshaping the idea of who we are. Who Am I? is a series of six composite portraits created by layering photographs of strangers encountered along this thoroughfare, forming images that are both singular and collective. Installed in illuminated light boxes, the portraits turned the street itself into a mirror of shared identity.
The work poses a deceptively simple question: if every face carries traces of countless others, where does the self begin and end? Each layered image suggests that individuality may not reside in isolation, but rather in accumulation—the gathering of glances, gestures, and moments that form the mosaic of a life. In its interplay of anonymity and intimacy, Who Am I? offers both a meditation and a mirror on the human condition in the urban crowd.